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n. - (mineralogy) a hollow rock or nodule with the cavity usually lined with crystals.

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  • The geode is a spherical and apparently solid stone, but when broken is found to be hollow and coated with crystals.
  • Even worse, this move means Allie will be leaving behind her best friend, her "geode" collection and the only school she's ever known.
  • It might have originally been a geode, carved out of rock.
  • I got a gem bracelet, a gem pencil, a geode and a piece of amethyst.
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